zitsky

Thanks.

B6 == JetBlue?

AS == Singapore Airlines?

jsloan

AS = Alaska Airlines

goodeats21

+1

I have been doing this a lot lately. Buy a separate "positioning" flight to a hub and then the separate ticket on Singapore (or EVA, etc), for the long haul flights. Saves quite a bit of money.

As Repooc17 stated, make sure to leave plenty of time between those flights, as you do not have any protection in case of irrops.

zimm0who0net

If I book mileage award travel to Costa Rica, and use my United Business MileagePlus card to pay for the $355 in fees (for 4 tickets), do I get the free baggage allowance for me and one companion?

WineCountryUA

yes, 1 bag. Paid the award fees will qualify you
https://www.theexplorercard.com/busi.../business-card

zimm0who0net

Thanks. It's not very clear from anywhere on their web site. It says you have to "pay for the ticket with your credit card", but if you're booking award travel, you're technically paying with miles, and then using the card to pay the fees. I wish they made it more clear! Thanks for the information.

zitsky

Is there an easy way to find Premium Plus flights without looking at each one? Say there are five flights a day and you only want to look at ones with PP?

WineCountryUA

Look for widebodies -- all the 777, 787, and 767s have PremPlus (except the 772HD - Hawaii config)
none of the narrow bodies have PremPlus (yet -- hoping the A321XLR will)

Repooc17

Google Flights, filter by United and premium economy

purdue1015

HI Guys,

Two random/unrelated questions.

1) Is there a simple way to see all UA metal flights scheduled between two airports for next 6 or so months? Ultimately I am trying to determine if there is a discernible pattern in flight schedules in both directions between ORD and a small midwestern Essential Air Service airport. I.e., M - Th there is 3 flights a day in both directions, but F - Sun there is 4, etc.

2) Does anyone know how long UA keeps customer related Mileage Plus data? I am in a phase of my career where I am traveling quite a bit (150 PQF last year). My father was a frequent flyer with UA 15-20 years ago. I know he was 1K for a while. He died 8 years ago. Would love to compare his stats to my own. I remember him being a 1K, and going to Red Carpet Club with him. I also suspect his BIS is higher than mine, but my child-centric perspective on this doesn't remember much else.

Mods feel free to move if appropriate.

Thanks!

jsloan

ExpertFlyer will allow you to see all direct flights between two airports on a week-by-week basis, and it will show you the end dates so you can generally get a pretty good idea what the schedule is. That said, for EAS in particular, you should be able to look up the EAS application itself — the flight operators bid for X flights daily / weekly, and the subsidy means that they don’t shift schedules around as much as can occur on unsubsiidzed routes.

There is some indication that MP data is kept indefinitely, but UA will not provide access to it absent a court order. (Although award miles are the property of United, judges have been known to move them around during divorce proceedings). Prior to the CO merger, you could call UA and ask them for an printed history, but reports have been that this is no longer done, presumably because everything has been moved to tape storage and it’s an expensive operation to pull that data.

WineCountryUA

Paid Tools like ExpertFlyer and KVS provide timetable viiews that show this type oinformation

Pre-merge UA was pretty good about this but post-merge UA using premerge-CO IT systems only keeps 3-4 years of data
Where to get my flight history and actual total lifetime miles (paid/award/partners)?

unitedwildcat

You can email mileageplus and they’ll give you history going back the last 10 years (which unfortunately does not help you in this case). It doesn’t seem like the agents have access to anything further (although as some have mentioned UA might have access to more)

purdue1015

Thank you all, very helpful as usual!


EDIT
I sent an email to 1K voice just now with my father's full name, DOB, DOD, and MP number. Not expecting any sort of response but if I get something I'll absolutely update this.

michaelmorio

I would appreciate if anyone can help me with the following questions.

I have a question about upgrading an international Premium Economy (R fare) flight. My status is UA Gold and I don't have Plus Points to use. The flight I am thinking of booking is between ICN and SFO. According to my quick check, upgrading requires $450 co-pay plus 30K UA miles. Did I get it right?
Other questions are as follows:

1. I don't have enough miles in my UA account now. But I can trasfer miles from my Chase account anytime. Can I still request an upgrade without enough miles in the UA account?
2. How close in to the flight do these upgrades usually clear? My concern is that if it's too close, say like at the boarding gate, I might not be able to do the necessary mile transfer. I never logged into my Chase account from overseas and I don't know if it could trigger some security issues.

Thank you.
michaelmorio